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No Free Dinner for Free Software (Wired)
Wired News covers a
dinner to benefit the Free Software Foundation. "The night's guest
of honor? Not, as one might imagine, the FSF's well-known leader; he was
in Costa Rica. Instead, the FSF recruited Stanford law professor Lawrence
Lessig as the main draw for an intimate discussion of the coming battles
between the individual artists and hackers who create copyrighted
material, and the large technology and media corporations that Lessig
says are stifling this creativity."
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No Free Dinner for Free Software (Wired) Posted Aug 16, 2002 22:43 UTC (Fri) by tomp (guest, #3300) [Link] I think it's very good that the FSF is doing these kinds of fund raisers. They can always use more donations and really need the money to help fight the DMCA and help with the digital speech project. Had I been at LinuxWorld, I would have gladly paid for this.I think it is good that the FSF realizes that it can be -- and is -- more than RMS. Make no mistake, RMS is critical to the future of free software. Having redundancy is a good thing as long as the other people representing the FSF don't compromise on the ethics, as the article says. It makes sense that the more people you have spreading your message, the further it will go. I hope the FSF finds "some 23-year-old" raised during the age of the Internet" -- the future of free software depends on it.
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